Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) by Jon P — 09 Sep 2014

Eye-gouging gore and all-out action are back in black (and white) in the long awaited sequel to Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City.

Celebrities cast as cranky new (and even crankier old) characters keep viewers on their toes, but the film feels shrouded in familiarity, and its pretty mist doesn't veil the fact that its stories simply don't flow as well or hit as hard as its predecessor's.

Granted, the grainy visual style isn't so groundbreaking in the age of 3D and 48fps, but that isn't the problem; the problem's that Sin City 2 lacks what made the quick-quipping original so cool: dialogic gold and noir-ish cold. Sin City sleeps.